Luxembourg & Dayan Revisits the Guggenheim's Breakthrough — vogue.com

Tom Wesselmann, Smoker #11, 1973 Photo: Jeff Sturges. Art © Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Guggenheim exhibition, the Upper East Side gallery Luxembourg & Dayan has used two works by Stella, now in his late ’70s, to anchor its own paean to misshapen paintings, “The Shaped Canvas, Revisited.” Breaking open the definition of “shaped canvas,” which at the time of the Guggenheim show was confined to Minimalist artists, the curators have included works by other artists working with non-rectangular paintings at the time—such as some of the American Pop contingency and the Italian Arte Povera crew—as well as those by young contemporaries who also experiment with the contours of their paintings.

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